cannery did not want the tomato pack to come on until late in
August. By that time the cream of the prices for garden-grown
tomatoes had been skimmed by the early truckers.

The same with sweet corn and green beans. The cannery demanded
these vegetables at so late a date that the market-price was
generally low.

These facts Hiram bore in mind as he planned his season's work,
and especially the kitchen garden. This latter he planned to be
about two acres in extent--rather a large plot, but he proposed
to set his rows of almost every vegetable far enough apart to be
worked with a horse cultivator.

Some crops--for instance onions, carrots, and other "fine
stuff"--must be weeded by hand to an extent, and if the soil
is rich enough rows twelve or fifteen inches apart show better
results.

Between such rows a wheelhoe can be used to good advantage, and
that was one tool--with a seed-sowing combination--that Hiram had
told Mrs. Atterson she must buy if he was to practically attend
to the whole farm for her. Hand-hoeing, in both field and garden
crops, is antediluvian.

Thus, during this week and a half of preparation, Hiram made
ready for the uprooting of Mrs. Atterson from the boarding house
in Crawberry to the farm some distance out of Scoville.

The good lady had but one wagon load of goods to be transferred